Google Has No Plans to Rethink Video Status — SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that it would not comply with a White House request to reconsider the anti-Islam video that has set off violent protests in the Arab world in light of its rules banning hate speech on YouTube, which it owns.

David Carr on newspapers, Twitter and citizen journalism — New York Times writer David Carr may not want to admit that he is a kind of rock star in media circles, but judging by the sold-out crowd of media types who showed up to watch him be interviewed by CBC radio host Michael Enright …

Coming to Yahoo: Fantasy Football + Robot Writers — Siri can help you order tomato soup. But what if you want to read a story about your fantasy football team's exploits, immediately after the week's games finish up? — For that you need a different artificial intelligence engine — the kind Automated Insights wants to show off.

Village Voice Is Losing Its Editor in Chief and Music Editor — After five-and-half-years as editor of The Village Voice, Tony Ortega announced in a by-the-way blog post that he will be leaving to work on a book about Scientology while music editor Maura Johnston took to Twitter to say she was leaving the paper as well.

No habla Español — Lalo Alcaraz has always embraced the word pocho. It refers to Mexican-Americans who have lost their Mexican culture and speak English, and it's what relatives occasionally called Alcaraz when he was growing up in San Diego. He has leveraged it ever since.

My epic search for a new-and-improved USA Today — Oh, I'm so crushed today... My plan for Friday: 1) Get up early. 2) Just as Adam quoted me there on Facebook last night... ...rush down to my local 7-Eleven to buy a copy of the new-and-improved USA Today 3) Take a few pictures with my camera …

WaPo's Wemple Has Eye For Male Journos — You may have noticed that WaPo's Erik Wemple has been playing closer attention to the males that appear on Cable TV. He took time the other day to comment on their shirts, ties, facial and head hair. Is he aiming for a gig at Metro Weekly?

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